Touchy subject?

[urania]

Sooo, feeling kind of sick today I stayed mainly in bed (yes, I'm also lazy) and read a lot of board discussions and articles and studies about nuclear energy, specifically (after Fukushima started depressing me a bit too much) about Germany's plans to abandon nuclear energy.

What I found very... weird and weirdly angry was among others and article from an English newspaper where they...
1.) called Germans idiots for not wanting nuclear energy
2.) moaned about how Germany doesn't pay enough to save the Euro
Last which I found curious 'cause I didn't know the UK had such a emotional opinion of the Euro...

But yeah, all the "waaaahhh, all Germans are unrealstic idiots, we will always need nuclear energy!!" (which you can read a lot on German boards, too, and I guess in contrast to some of the people going "we are gonna abandon nuclear energy until 2015, hurr hurr" has it's place, kinda balancing it out...) stroke me kinda... odd.

I mean, maybe probably the way I was raised plays a role in my current opinion of the whole deal, but really? How can you cling to something like decades old power plants and at the same time say "no, it is very scientific, I am a scientist, you know". I always thought scientists would be about innovation? Oh well.

And who I find... funny are all the people going "no, we can't not have those power plants! We'll have blackouts all the time!". ... Yes, because we have soooo many now that the old ones aren't supplying the German power network at the moment? ...

I don't even know why I have such a strong opinion on the matter. Sometimes I wish I didn't. Or no, scratch that, I just wish I was more savvy in the area, so I wouldn't have to rely on information I can find. :/


... Did somebody even read all my rambling? Heh.

Comments

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

The whole situation with nuclear power is just a knee-jerk reaction to what's happened in Japan, just the same as it takes a disaster in the first place to get people to care about things. Did people abandon it after Chernobyl? Of course they didn't, but speaking from living in the UK I personally do not agree with nuclear power. We should be concentrating on improving wind and water energy. Sure, turbines can be ugly, but if man does ever finally discover a clean, safe perpetual energy then we can remove the turbines and they will have done minimal damage. I'm not saying they will do no damage, but it has got to be better than having a handful of nuclear plants around the country that create waste that must be stored indefinitely and we should be thinking about improving things long-term; not building more nuclear power stations which only have a limited life and are a quick-fix in some respects to our more immediate power needs for the next x-amount of years. A hundred years from now is not really thought about. It's the same with people pissing themselves silly over electric cars etc. Where do they think the electricity comes from? Here, at least, it's mostly coal-powered stations. If anything, people who support nuclear and will not invest time and research into other areas are the idiots (which sadly is mainly the view of the UK government).

The UK is bitter about Europe for some reason. I have no idea why (though it probably has something to do with 1: the UK being jealous of Germany's economy and industry and 2: not being able to get over a certain event 65 years ago, if I'm being completely honest) - I can't understand why most people are so negative about being part of the EU. I think it's wonderful that countries so close to one another should co-operate for their common interest.

[luna-glass-wall.livejournal.com]

I read it; as an American I found it interesting and enlightening to read about other countries' debates ^.^